Faculty News

Publications

GARWOOD ANDERSON, PhD, Dean and Professor of New Testament:

» Anderson, Garwood P. “Freedom / Liberty.” In The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, edited by Scot McKnight, Nijay K. Gupta, and Lynne Cohick, 2d ed., 328–35. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2023.

» ———. “Law.” In The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, edited by Scot McKnight, Nijay Gupta, and Lynne Cohick, 2d ed., 608–22. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2023.

» “For Maundy Thursday,” Covenant, April 6, 2023.

THE REV. HANS BOERSMA, PhD, Chair, Order of St. Benedict Servants of Christ Endowed Professorship in Ascetical Theology:

» In April, Lexham Press published Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition.

» “Plotinus and the Ascent to Beauty.” In Patristic Spirituality: Classical Perspectives on Ascent in the Journey to God. Ed. Don W. Springer and Kevin M. Clarke, 56–71. Studies in Theology and Religion 30. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

» “Memory and Character Formation: The Ark in Hugh of Saint Victor.” In An Introduction to Child Theology. Ed. James M. Houston, 139–64. Eugene, OR: Cascade Publishing, 2022.

» Boersma delivered “God as Embodied: Christology and Participation in Maximus the Confessor” at the 40th Annual Fr. Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture, Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Yonkers, NY. January 30, 2023.

THE REV. TRAVIS BOTT, PhD, Professor of Old Testament:

» Bott delivered the lecture “Servants of The Lord: Theological Anthropology in The Psalms” at the Hebrew Bible Conference, hosted by the Bible Project at Multnomah University on March 11, 2023.

THE REV. MATTHEW S. C. OLVER, PhD, Associate Professor of Liturgics and Pastoral Theology:

» “The Epistle to the Hebrews in the Roman Canon Missae: Melchizedek and Other Features, part 1” Ecclesia Orans (2022), vol. 39, no. 2, 321-46.

» “The Epistle to the Hebrews in the Roman Canon Missae: Melchizedek and Other Features, part 2” Ecclesia Orans, forthcoming in 2023.

» “An Anglican Reflects on Pope Benedict XVI,” PrayTell (December 31, 2022). Reprinted by The Living Church and picked up by the Catholic Herald (UK) as “Benedict XVI: A teacher for the whole world.”

» “A Proposal for the 81st General Convention,” Covenant (October 21, 2022).

» “An Explanation and an Exploration of 2022-A059,” Covenant (October 19, 2022).

Bott Preaches For Week Of Prayer For Christian Unity

The Rev. Dr. Travis Bott was the guest preacher at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Sacred Heart is one of Nashotah House’s covenant partner seminaries for whom the seminary prays regularly.

» “A Summary of the Authorization of Liturgical Texts,” Covenant (October 14, 2022).

» “The Book of Common Prayer in TEC’s Constitution,” Covenant (October 12, 2022).

» “An Analogue to Traditionis Custodes in the Episcopal Church,” PrayTell (October 3, 2022).

» Olver delivered “The Book of Common Prayer: Ordering Principle, the Place of Sacrifice, and Future Revision” at the Diocese of Tennessee Clergy Colloquium, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN (April 25-26, 2023).

THE REV. GREG PETERS, PhD, Servants of Christ Research Professor of Monastic Studies and Ascetical Theology:

» “Joseph (Fr. Ignatius) Leycester Lyne (18371908) and Revival of Monasticism in the Anglican Communion,” in Hugh Feiss and Maureen O’Brien, eds., A Benedictine Reader: 1530–1930 (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2023), 381-400.

» “Bare Ruined Choirs?: The Death and Life of Anglican Monasticism,” American Benedictine Review 74.1 (2023): 22-41.

» “Episcopacy in the Anglican Tradition.” Paper commissioned for the Anglican Church in North America/United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Ecumenical Dialogue; held in Chicago, Illinois, on October 20, 2022. The paper is available to read and download at https://anglicanchurch.net/wp-content/ uploads/2023/01/Greg-Peters-AnglicanEpiscopacy.pdf

» “Unity of Knowledge and Unity with God: Theology’s Crucial Place in Education,” in R. Keith Loftin, ed., Re-kindling an Old Light: Contours of Christ–shaped Liberal Learning (Houston: High Bridge Books, 2022), 103-112.

THE REV. PAUL WHEATLEY, PhD, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek:

» Wheatley’s peer-reviewed article “Mark as Ritual Narrative: Anointing, Memorial, and Genre Signifiers in Mark 14:3–9” has been accepted for publication in Catholic Biblical Quarterly.

» “Jesus, Baptism, and the Reversal of Death in Mark 4:1–5:43,” Covenant (March 16, 2023).

» “The Mystery of Epiphany,” Covenant (January 5, 2023).

» “Why Study Biblical Languages?” Covenant (October 5, 2023).

DR. GEOFFREY WILLIAMS’ (Assistant Professor of Church Music) piece “Adam lay ybounden” was recently published by Norwegian publisher Norsk Musikforlag. The piece is recorded on New York Polyphony’s Sing thee Nowell, and another piece from that record, “There is no Rose,” will be published later this year.

Olver Meets With Former Archbishop Rowan Williams

The Rev. Dr. Matthew Olver in March met with the Rt. Rev. and the Rt. Hon. the Lord Williams of Oystermouth, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. Olver and the Rev. Dr. Nathan Jennings, Milton Richardson Associate Professor of Liturgics and Anglican Studies at the Seminary of the Southwest, were in England on their joint Conant Grant.

Podcasts

GARWOOD ANDERSON, PhD:

“The Focus of Seminaries: Charisma, Humanism & Theology,” With Faith in Mind Podcast, May 3, 2023.

THE REV. HANS BOERSMA, PhD:

“Up the Hierarchy! Hans Boersma & Dionysius the Areopagite on Why We Have Hierarchy All Wrong,” The Theology Pugcast, December 5, 2022.

“No Plato, No Scripture?”, Upstream, February 28, 2023.

“Hans Boersma | Pierced by Love,” Guilt Grace Gratitude Podcast, April 6, 2023.

THE REV. GREG PETERS, PhD:

“E. B. Pusey and Monasticism,” The Sacramentalists, February 20, 2023.

“Re-formed Catholic Anglicanism,” The North American Anglican, April 3, 2023.

BOTT PREACHES FOR WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY

The Rev. Dr. Travis Bott was the guest preacher at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Sacred Heart is one of Nashotah House’s covenant partner seminaries for whom the seminary prays regularly.